The image shows two men, one on a horse and the other standing beside it. The man on the horse is in an elevated position, with a resolute facial expression, a beard, sharp eyebrows, a turban, a robe with ornate patterns, and sheathed knives in his waistband. The man standing beside the horse is shirtless with a muscular build, hair styled into two puffs, holding the horse's bridle in one hand and a stick or staff in the other. The setting behind them is sparsely depicted, with suggestive lines possibly indicating a landscape or horizon.

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The Chief of the Mamelukes on Horseback

printmaker Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771 - 1835)

1817

Medium: lithograph
Classification: Print
Dimensions: stone: 33 × 24 cm (13 × 9 7/16 in.) ; sheet: 34.5 × 26 cm (13 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line: Rosenwald Collection
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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